Now that millions of people have learned “The Secret”—which is the Law of Attraction--on Oprah and from the new book and DVD by this name, we thought you’d enjoy an article we wrote several years ago about how the Law of Attraction operates in politics:According to the new science of psychoneuroimmunology and the study of neuropeptides, our negative thoughts and emotions weaken our immune system and harm our personal health and well-being. Our positive thoughts strengthen us. But what about the effects of our collective thoughts on our collective political health as a society? The world we see around us is what our past thoughts have created. This is the Law of Attraction on a large scale. If we don’t like what we see, we need to change our thinking. To create a healthy world, we need healthy minds. Energy follows thought. Whatever we think about, we direct energy towards, and this focused energy, combined with our emotional desire and vital energy, gives thought the power to manifest physically. Thought is the basic building block of the universe. With each new thought we help create the world anew. This is the incredible power we as humans have – for good or evil.If the physical forms we have created with our thoughts become too limiting or dysfunctional, they need to be destroyed. The ancients taught: “In the shattering of form lies hid the secret of all evolution.” As we shatter old thoughtforms, such as limiting ideas about what women are capable of, then we begin the process of shattering old institutions, such as corporate management or sports that exclude women. Politics is essentially about the distribution and exercise of power in the collective sphere. How would our politics be different if citizens personally understood that consciousness is primal and thoughts are the cause of everything in our lives and in the physical world? Politics would be almost the exact opposite of what we have today, as we would focus more on the inner, subjective side of life, and less on personalities, money and power. Citizens would take more responsibility for what their consciousness had created, both personally and collectively, and they’d stop blaming others for problems. Politicians would serve the greatest good of the greatest number of people – the opposite of today.Politics is affected by the values held in people’s consciousness. The values of the market place (e.g. competition, money, etc.) currently dominate our consciousness, and thus control politics. If spiritual values (e.g. compassion, sharing, etc.) ascend in our consciousness, they will guide and direct our politics. Real, transformational political power begins with inner consciousness, not with outer, material forms such as government agencies.If consciousness is seen as primary, then the key to real progress would be helping people expand their consciousness and identify with ever more inclusive groups – from family to community to nation to the world and all life on earth. With each expansion of identity, there would be a new focus on finding a sense of unity amidst diversity and developing a shared purpose. Identifying ourselves as world citizens and aligning with the higher purpose of the United Nations would be recognized as a more advanced stage of consciousness.